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Damien O'Mara

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100 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

And for all of the people that are very excited to see the World Cup arrive in Mexico in particular, there's an awful lot of people that are deeply dissatisfied with aspects of social care and, you know, like...

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

The nation's teachers were a big part of the protest.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

They're looking for better standards, better conditions.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

There's 134,000 people registered as disappeared or missing in Mexico.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

Their families were part of this protest as well.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

There is a significant financial investment for any of these countries that take on the hosting rights to these major sporting events.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

And that comes with a level of...

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

of unease.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

By going by accounts of people that were at the game, there was talk at one stage that there was going to be a one kilometre cordon around the ground that would restrict the movements of people.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

By all accounts, even looking at the social media of some colleagues from the BBC who were over there covering it, they reckoned they walked somewhere between six to eight kilometres to get to the ground because the areas were shut down.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

There was violence, there were attacks on police.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

I don't want to say this is part and parcel of these major tournaments, but this is part of the dissatisfaction that comes with these governments, these nations deciding to get into bed with FIFA and deciding to invest in the infrastructure that's required around a major tournament like a World Cup.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

Now, David, don't be bitter.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

I did say bittersweet.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

Yeah, Czechia, who obviously ended our ambitions of going to the World Cup, took the lead against South Korea.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

South Korea came from behind to win that 2-1.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

So Czechia face a battle already to advance to the knockout stages.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

I thought it was actually a really interesting game.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

Obviously, it took place at three o'clock in the morning.

Today with David McCullagh
Biggest-ever World Cup kicks off in Mexico

I'm not sure how many people stayed up to watch it late.